PNG should be a lossless format, it got compression level, but still lossless anyways, do the quality must already bad before saving as png files. cairo built-in text font was a toy only, not sure if it got improvement or not.
plot has several output formats, you may try pdf which works on jconsole. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 1:54 PM Dimitri Georganas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm modeling IC bed impact due to COVID-19 and I need to output a large > number of bitmaps, so png seems a good choice. However, PNG (cairo) output > results in quality loss (compared to the default option) and I was > wondering if I am missing any libraries (libcairo is installed). It's a > linux system. (see attachment). I have J latest version installed. > > While the graph looks ok the text that becomes unreadable, and part of the > legend text end up outside the box. I tried different width and height, > but no luck. I use default plot command and then call pd 'cairo' to create > the png. > > I also looked at graphics/gnuplot addon, but it seems windows-specific. Can > you recommend any other options? > > Dimitri > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
